Connecting the dots of life and business

Today’s lineup… One coffee shop, one huge lunch and still pending with Ben. Keep track of the day with Twitter for current status and Flickr of where I’ve been.
Kevin Smokler – Editor of Bookmark Now and popular speaker on the topic endurance of the arts in the digital 21st century
Mary Ladd [...]

My first day of this Bay Area was exhausting and stimulating at the same time. I’ve got to give props to my videographer, Dustin DeVoy. The guy has great skills and worked hard. For a guy who’s not into business, he acted engaged the whole day. He was smart to suggest [...]

I thought to kick off my whirlwind interview tour, I’d show a clip from last week’s interview with a well-known Valley “guy”… Mr. Truemors himself, Guy Kawasaki.

I arrived last night in the Bay Area and have four interviews setup for today. Here’s the lineup for Thursday, June 28.
Laurence Haughton – Best-selling author, speaker and management consultant
Robin Wolaner – Author of the book, Naked in the Boardroom, founder of Parenting magazine and the new startup, tbd.com
Daniel Scudder – Founder of DormItem, [...]

Shoot for 4th place doesn’t have such a great ring to it, but to get to 1st place you have to work hard through the plateaus of 10th, 6th and 3rd.
A nice reminder of this lesson was two weeks ago when I shot an 88 (43, 45) and broke 90 for the first time in [...]

I regularly eat at a downtown restaurant and the manager comes by each time to ask the same question. Was everything alright with your meal? It’s become a joke for me when I eat there. Why ask me a loaded question that will never get an honest answer? How about… what [...]